August 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Taylor returns for a conversation about the final step of the EASY Bible Study Method, Yearn For A Heart Change. She and Mentor Mama discuss how to bridge the gap between head and heart, what God has been showing them in their personal studies, and how to apply even difficult or unfamiliar passages of Scripture.
Scriptures referenced:
- James 1:22
- Proverbs 4:23
- Jeremiah 29:11
- Proverbs 3:5-6
- James 1:5
- Acts 7:60
- Matthew 16:24
Resources:
The EASY Bible Study Method: A Guide to Understanding, Applying, and Delighting in God's Word
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Ellen Krause (00:04):
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Welcome back to the Coffee andBible Time podcast.
We are so happy that you arejoining us as we wrap up our
four-part series on studying theBible.
Have you ever read your Bible,closed it and thought why am I
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still the same?
You long for transformation,real heart change, but it feels
like your time in the Word isn'tsinking in.
If that's you, you're not alone.
In today's episode, we'redelving into the deep ache that
so many of us feel, the yearningfor God's word to actually
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change us inwardly and outwardly, not just inform us.
We are going to unpack what'sgetting in the way and how to
move from just reading scriptureto being truly renewed by it.
So if you're hungry for morethan head knowledge, if you want
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your heart to be more likeChrist's, this episode is
exactly what you need.
Welcome, taylor.
Taylor Mitchell (01:36):
Welcome.
It's so good to be here.
I've loved having this serieson our channel where Ashley and
I have been kind of moreinvolved in talking about Bible
study, and obviously the easyBible study method is very
special to us because this issomething that Ashley created oh
my goodness, five years ago nowand yeah, it's just absolutely
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crazy to think about how Godplanted that seed so long ago
and it's impacted a lot ofpeople and helping them be able
to really read the Bible in asystematic way, an easy way,
really.
Ellen Krause (02:16):
Absolutely, and the more we hear about people
who have read about it, who knowabout the Easy Bible Study
Method they really are theirlives are changed.
So that's what we want to talkabout here today, and I want to
first look at inwardtransformation.
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The way we seek heart change isthrough applying what we've
learned from the text to ourlife.
So, taylor, why do you think weneed to start with the heart?
Taylor Mitchell (02:51):
For those of you that are just joining us new
.
This week we are in the lastletter of the EASY acronym
E-A-S-Y, and this one stands foryearning for heart change.
Obviously, and a reallyimportant step to wanting to
apply the text to our lives isby taking everything you've
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learned when you're reading theBible from head knowledge to
your heart.
And I know for a lot of usthere can be a disconnect when
it comes to reading your Bible,depending on the busyness of
your life, or even if you're inan academic setting like I was
in Bible college for so longSometimes reading the Bible can
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feel very much so, just anactivity that you do with your
head, and this should not besomething we want to get in the
habit of.
Right, because God does reallydesire for our heart to be
changed and transformed by whatwe read, and I love that.
You asked that question of whyis it so important to start with
your heart.
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And that's because changealways starts from the inside
out, right.
Scripture tells us God looks atour heart.
He's desiring to see that thethings that we are learning
about him and the way that thespirit is moving is moving in
such a way that we are allowingit to penetrate deeper than just
our minds.
I think we can all say we knowpeople I mean maybe even
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ourselves at some points oranother in our lives who really
they hear the word and itdoesn't change them.
And we actually did a study inour community not too long ago
on James.
And James has a warning, youknow.
He says be doers of the wordand not hearers only Because God
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truly is looking to see thatwhat we read turns into
application for us.
And I know I'm rambling andrambling and rambling here, but
I believe that when you'rereading your Bible, some of
those first steps of finding thecontext and assessing the main
idea and seeking God's charactercan look a little bit more
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logical.
And then, when you are kind ofreally soaking in all that
you've learned there, you wantto move from a space of learning
information to letting it godeeper into your soul, asking
those questions about how thetext should be changing the way
that you live your life.
And in order to really do thatwell, you need to be able to
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have some self-reflection andsome what's the word I'm
thinking of?
You need to be aware of what'sgoing on in your heart and your
mind and what's going on in yourlife.
Self-awareness, that's what I'mthinking of.
You need to be self-aware aboutwhat's going on in your heart
and your mind and bring that tothe Lord in prayer, and I think
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that that's the first step whenit comes to yearning for a heart
change is bringing the Lordexactly where you are and asking
where the text or what you'rereading can intersect in that.
Do you have any thoughts?
Ellen Krause (06:06):
You know I was looking up some verses on the
heart and scripture itself helpsus to understand what is meant
by that and I just wanted tomention a couple of those.
Proverbs 4.23 says Keep yourheart with all vigilance, for
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from it flows the springs oflife.
That's one example.
Jeremiah 29.13 says you willseek me and find me when you
seek me with all your heartright.
Taylor Mitchell (06:45):
We see that God is he's emotionally available.
We talked about this in theseeking God podcast episode that
we did last week, but that's areally key thing to understand
about God and about who you aremade in the image of, is
somebody who is emotional in thebest, most connective way
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possible.
He is a God that is emotionallyavailable to all our needs and
he created us with the abilityto connect with him.
That in itself is very profound, but it's also extremely
important to know in regards tomeeting him in his word.
We believe that scripture isGod-breathed.
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We believe that this is his wayof revealing himself to us.
If you want to learn and knowmore about God, connect with him
in his word.
This is where he is speaking tous through so many genres and
books and things.
That takes you on a journey andan adventure, but, like you
said, these stories are meant toconnect with us in our heart.
Ellen Krause (07:53):
Absolutely, and when we take the time to sit in
God's word, we start to get anunderstanding about things that
maybe need to be challenged orreshaped in our lives.
Do you have any recent examplesof this Tay, something that
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you've read in God's word andrecognized that you need to take
action?
Taylor Mitchell (08:21):
That is a great question.
Well, first of all, I just wantto say that there's a lot of
different questions that we canask ourselves when we're wanting
to apply God's word to our life.
In any passage that you readand I'm going to say a few right
now, but there's a lot more inour Easy Bible Study book that
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you can use as a tool to helpyou dig deeper into the
application portion of yourBible study.
But first question that you canask yourself is in what ways is
the Holy Spirit convicting methat my heart needs to look more
like God's?
Another one is how does mycurrent way of thinking need to
be challenged?
Three what emotions am Ifeeling?
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Fear, anxiety, bitterness.
That has maybe come out as Iwas reading God's word that
needs to be acknowledged andsurrendered.
Those are a few I will say.
Actually, mentor Mama, somethingthat I was challenged by that
you told me recently is that Ineed to watch my tongue, okay,
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and that sometimes I'm agrumbler, I'm a complainer.
Sometimes I've actually noticedthat about myself, maybe more
so in this wedding season that Ifeel like the overflow of my
mouth has been a lot ofcomplaining, stress.
And I will say and I won't gettoo deep into this, but part of
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the process of this weddingplanning has been working with
vendors and people along the waythat are supposed to help us,
and there's been a few trickyrelationships that I've had to
navigate, and one of them inparticular has brought a lot of
grumbling and complaining out ofme Gossip, if I can just like
be quite frank and honest.
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I mean, I don't even know thisperson really on a deep level,
but they've made it so difficultfor me to have more peace in
this process of wedding planningand that's brought a lot of
bitterness out in me and a lotof ugliness, and I've had to
really, really challenge myselfto trust that God is sovereign
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over everything and to alsotrust that God's model for my
life and how he wants my heartto look, which really should be
gracious and understanding andforgiving.
That needs to be a priority,and if I'm really truly trusting
God that his way is best, thenthat means that I should be able
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to reflect in my heart and findgrace for these people that
maybe do make my life a littlebit more difficult, and I'm sure
we can all relate to that inone way or another.
Life isn't full of easy peopleto get along with at all by any
means, and are we able to lookin our heart and say, can I be
gracious towards this personwhen I really just want to go
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the opposite direction and feelupset and angry and let my
bitterness come out?
I was really hoping for me thatthe wedding period of all these
details and all this stuffwould not be stressful, but it
is.
I don't want to look back inthese moments and be like man.
I really let that stress ruinthe process for me.
I don't want that.
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But anyways, I think thatthat's one area for me.
What about you?
Mentor Mama?
Ellen Krause (11:44):
I think that you've also learned, though,
through this process, thatthere's two sides to every story
, and sometimes being graciousincludes not fully understanding
what that other person isperhaps going through, that
they're not communicating, andso that's been a, that's so true
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.
Definitely a learning processand I know for me it's.
A lot of times the anxietycomes back to trust and I feel
like that was one thing that mydad was so good at reminding me
as a younger person.
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And he was a big man, 6'4".
People called him the gentlegiant and I can almost feel like
his hand on my shoulder when Iwould have anxiety, saying just
trust, just trust, it's going tobe okay.
Taylor Mitchell (12:44):
I love that.
Actually, that reminds me of apassage in Proverbs that our
church was doing for VBS thissummer, and that is Proverbs 3,
5 through 6, trust in the Lordwith all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding.
In all your ways, acknowledgehim and he will direct your
paths.
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And what's so beautiful aboutthat verse in regards to what
we're talking about and whatyou're saying here is that trust
is an application that we canput into our lives.
From what we read in the text,how many passages of scripture
do we read where we see the mainperson of the story is going
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through a difficult time?
I mean, look in the OldTestament, look in the New
Testament.
I want to say probably 90% ofthe stories that you read in the
Bible are of trials, thatpeople are going through
difficulties where they aregiven an opportunity to trust
God.
We see stories where they dotrust God.
We see stories where they runaway from God but come back.
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We see stories where they flatout you know, just choose not to
walk with the Lord.
And what we have theopportunity to do is, when we
read those stories, especiallyin the yearning for heart change
section of our quiet time is toask the Holy Spirit how can I
learn about this trust and applyit to my life?
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How can my heart look more likeJesus?
And I'm thinking even of thisProverbs passage trust in the
Lord with all your heart.
How easy would it be to justread through that proverb and be
like all right, amen, done.
Thank you.
That was so good and easy toread today, Quiet time over,
Instead of sitting andreflecting and chewing on it.
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I love that Ashley uses the wordchew a lot.
When you're reading scripture,it is kind of like a chewing.
You want to just sit and enjoyit and savor it.
Sometimes, I think in aninstance like this, where it
says trust in the Lord with allyour heart, when you're leaving
your quiet time, you should beasking yourself when am I not
trusting you, lord?
And just let the holy spirittell you where you're not
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trusting him.
You might think I'm I'm prettygood on that.
I think we all struggle withtrust in one way or another and
ask the holy spirit to revealthat.
And yeah, james tells us thatwe should ask God for wisdom and
he gives generously to all,without reproach or turning you
away.
So if you want wisdom and howto apply God's word to your life
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.
I feel that this is nodifferent.
Ellen Krause (15:22):
So one of the things that we have to do is
untangle our emotions from whatroot issues that we may be going
on and then using God's word ascounsel or guidance or
application to what needs to bechanged about that, about that.
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How can journaling help usacknowledge those, surrender
them and see how God's scripturecan then help us change where
we need to.
Taylor Mitchell (15:58):
That's a great question.
Actually, when you were sayingthat, it brought to mind for me
just how tricky it can be withhuman emotions.
Those of you that know me.
I was trying to get my master'sdegree in counseling, so I'm
all for emotions okay, and thatjourney for me ended quickly
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because my school shutting down,wah wah.
But still, as I think aboutemotions, emotions are valid,
they're important tools, they'reindicators for us to see
something deeper is going on,like you said, mentor Mama.
But sometimes we place thoseemotions a bit on a pedestal.
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Sometimes, when we have reallystrong emotions or feelings or a
pull in us in a certaindirection ideologically, we can
sometimes want to view the Biblethrough that lens, and that is
the primary way that we viewscripture is through our own
ideas, through our own emotions,through our own beliefs and
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morals.
And where journaling can be agreat tool is it allows you to
express how you're feeling tothe Lord, acknowledging those
emotions, which is really key,really important.
If you are feeling something,you need to acknowledge it.
Okay, you can't just keepburying that puppy under the
dirt.
That thing will resurface overand over and over again, and for
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some of us, the more we dig anddig and dig and dig and dig and
dig.
Somebody comes along and stepson a landmine and it blows up.
So it is really good toacknowledge those and not let
them fester and simmer.
But journaling is a great wayto acknowledge those feelings
while also keeping your heartand your mind open to reading
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scripture the way God intendedus to interpret it.
And that's why those firststeps of the easy Bible study
method are so important,especially entering into the
story, because the Bible iswritten by human authors to
original audiences that, I mean,shocker to.
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Ironically, a lot of us isn't usin 21st century.
It was to somebody else thatthere are total eternal truths
that we can take away?
Absolutely, don't get me wrong.
But sometimes we take in ourown emotions, our own ideas, our
own beliefs, our own even youknow political ideologies, and
we put it into the text ratherthan reading out and extracting
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the idea that the originalauthor wanted us to get.
So it is true, mentor Mama,that it's important to see the
emotions that we have.
I mean it can turn into anentangled web.
We have to acknowledge them,but we can't bring it too much
into the text because dangerousthings can happen there in terms
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of interpretation that justthey aren't accurate anymore,
and I know that that's asensitive subject today, because
we do have different camps ofpeople who interpret scripture,
have different camps of peoplewho interpret scripture,
honestly, vastly different incertain areas, because of
beliefs that we want to bringinto the text or vice versa.
Ellen Krause (19:15):
That is so true for sure.
You know, this morning, tay,when I was doing my quiet time,
I was reading Acts, chapter 7,about the story of Stephen, the
stoning of Stephen, and thisreally reminded me of, first of
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all, like if you're carryingbitterness and I'm thinking
about myself here like there arecertain things that have
happened in my life that I canbe bitter about, but this
morning, when I was reading thispassage about Stephen and he is
literally being stoned to deathand at the very end his last
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dying words were he fell on hisknees and cried out Lord, do not
hold this sin against them.
Taylor Mitchell (20:15):
Wow.
Ellen Krause (20:18):
It just really struck me as that's what I need
to apply, no matter how grievoussomeone has sinned against me.
That's what Jesus did for us,and that's how I need to apply
it to my life as well, and so Ifelt convicted reading that.
Taylor Mitchell (20:42):
Yeah, I was going to say that's why it's so
important to read God's word,because hearing about I mean
especially in the early churchyou see people live so radically
, so counterculturally, to thepoint where you cannot walk away
from reading those passageswithout in some way feeling
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convicted that your heart oryour actions need to change.
And it's scary how, the longeryou don't spend in God's word
I'm speaking from experience themore justified you feel in
having bitterness, holdinggrudges, withholding forgiveness
, staying angry at people.
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You kind of get this puffed upsort of pride that you, you
think you're a good person andyou know we're, we're all in
need of god's forgiveness.
We can't be withholdinganything and we certainly can't
be the judge of other people too.
But I'm telling you, the longerI spend out of god's word, the
more bold I should not bold in agood way, but bold in a bad way
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I am to think that I can havecertain perks that Christ did
not call believers to have andhe calls believers to pick up
their cross and to live like him.
That means radical forgivenessand love and, of course, all the
fruits of the spirit that we,let's be honest, don't hone if
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we're not reading God's word.
Ellen Krause (22:14):
Right, which is really the outward application
of applying the text once you'vesort of gone through this inner
heart assessment, if you will,and then living it out is really
the hard part.
I want to just make sure thatwe touch briefly on when a
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passage doesn't give a clearcommand, but it can point to
other godly characteristics.
So when we read a text likethat, how can we identify and
adopt those implied?
Taylor Mitchell (22:58):
behaviors, because, like, okay, actually
shameless plug.
But I really recommend that forthose of you that are wanting
to dig really deep into God'sword.
Please, please, please, checkout our academy courses that we
have online.
You can have access to all ofthem if you join our community
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monthly, or you can buy themindividually and do it that way,
but there are so many layers tocreating just an incredible
Bible study routine and justscratching the surface.
Talking about genre, there are alot of different genres of
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books of the Bible that you'rereading.
Some of them make for really,really easy to apply passages.
I mean, you can whip throughchapter after chapter in, let's
say, proverbs or something in awisdom literature book and
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you're going to be like, wow, Icould apply this, I could apply
this, I could stop doing this, Icould stop doing that.
The Holy Spirit could partnerwith me in this.
And then you're going to haveother books.
I mean I am particularlythinking in the Old Testament
not really a shocker therehistory and context into how
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people lived very differentlythan us and maybe lived in ways
that aren't really applicable tous.
One thing I think of is thelineage passages.
We've all been there wherewe've gone to the Old Testament.
We think we're about to justwhip through a book and then, lo
and behold, there's severalpages worth of name after name
after name that you cannotpronounce to save your life and
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you think to yourself you knowwhat?
I don't really know how theBible can apply to me because
this, just it just feels notreally helpful to our life.
Okay, feels not really helpfulto our life.
Okay, for those of you that aremaybe confused, when you are
reading those more historicalbooks, you can, like Mentor Mama
said, still learn a lot aboutGod and his character and how he
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treats people that constantlywander away from him and
constantly turn their back onhim.
You can learn a lot about thegrace and forgiveness and love
of God.
In those Old Testament books.
You can also really learn tosee how God has worked through
history and time to bring aboutthe greatest story of redemption
of all time in Jesus Christ.
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And some of those books don'thave a one, two, three
application step for you to goabout your day and how to talk
to your boss at work.
There are other passages inscripture that can really help
you with those things.
But don't feel like you'redoing something wrong.
If you're reading throughscripture and you're like I just
feel like I don't really knowwhat to bring out of this.
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That's normal and you can stillknow that you're honoring the
Lord and reading those passagesand learning about how he's
worked through history, canstill know that you're honoring
the Lord and reading thosepassages and learning about how
he's worked through history, etc.
Do you have any thoughts youwant to add to this?
Ellen Krause (26:13):
yeah, you know, the one thing that I was going
to add to that, and I can saythis, is because I was in a
mom's group where we did biblestudies every single year for
over 20 years, and somethingthat you learn when you take the
time to actually do a Biblestudy and I'm just thinking of
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Matthew, for example, and thegenealogy that you referred to
when you actually dissect it.
I remember learning back in theday when I didn't know that
much about the Bible, and thenin that genealogy where you're
learning that Rahab was anancestor, that Ruth was an
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ancestor, and then when youlearn about the character-.
Taylor Mitchell (27:09):
Ancestor to Jesus.
For those that are curiousabout who their ancestors are.
Ellen Krause (27:15):
Yes, sorry about that.
I shouldn't have made thatassumption.
But when you then learn aboutthe characteristics of these
women and who they were and whythey're in the genealogy, then
there's something there thatyou're starting to grasp that
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you can glean some implicitapplications from.
Taylor Mitchell (27:43):
Right and I'm going to sit here and tell you
right now that for the averageJehovah reader, you may not get
those without studying a Biblestudy or having some sort of
tool or a commentary.
And the reason why that is isbecause when you're first
reading the Bible for the firsttime, you're going to be getting
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one layer, one layer ofgoodness.
Okay, every time you read theBible after that you are going
to keep peeling back the layers,that is, the knowledge found in
scripture.
The more you keep reading, themore you get out of it.
I mean, you could be readingthe Bible third, fourth, fifth,
sixth time and you're like Ididn't get that my first, second
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, third time.
It continues to unveil itself inreally beautiful ways and I
went okay, I'm just going to saythis I went to Bible school, my
sister went to Bible school, mymom she's like she said she's
done 20 years worth of, I wouldsay, pretty in-depth Bible
studies and sometimes I mean I'mnot even gonna say sometimes, a
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lot of times we still look toscholars for help when studying
God's word, we still look tocommentaries, because these
people have spent their entireadult career and life
meticulously studying God's wordto be able to get out of it
exactly what God wants to shareand what his heart is behind it.
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And for some of them, they lovethose genealogies right, and so
they're going to spend hundredsof hours looking at those
genealogies, making everyconnection possible, and they're
going to deliver it to you in asemi-easy-to-read format for
you to understand how you canalso fall more in love with God
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through passages like that.
I'll say another thing that I'mthinking of in terms of
passages and I don't want todwell on this too long, but
passages that I think of thatare not quite so easy to apply
is the Old Testament passages onconstruction guidelines,
because they do give youinstructions on how to, for
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instance, make the Ark of theCovenant.
It needs to be this long bythis wide, by X, y, z and I know
what you're about to say,mentor Mama.
Even that you can glean thingsfrom, because didn't you do a
study on the Ark?
Ellen Krause (30:18):
Well, not the Ark, the Tabernacle, which was
incredible, one of my all-timefavorite and and people.
Taylor Mitchell (30:31):
I'm telling you there are bible studies out
there on on those things.
So if you are curious aboutlearning more about those
designs that god has, then theyare out there, I'm telling you.
Ellen Krause (30:45):
They sure are All right.
Well, tay, as we sort of wrapthis up, what would you say to
encourage someone that to makeit all the way through to get to
this point?
So, as you said, this is thelast process in the Easy Bible
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Study method which is yearn forheart change.
It's the application of whatthe scriptures are teaching us
and how to apply it.
How would you like to encouragesomeone today?
Taylor Mitchell (31:22):
You know what?
It is easy to go through yourBible study and learn a lot and
to not walk away withapplication.
It is so easy to do that and Iwould encourage you, just as I'm
encouraging myself, where everyday that you do your Bible
study, you don't ever get to anapplication part or you don't
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ever get time to self-reflect.
I think for me, a lot of times,quiet times that look like that
, are maybe I'm rushing and I'mlike, all right, I'll just put
on the audio Bible and I'll justhave it on the background while
I, you know, do my makeup ordrive the car or do this or that
, and really it's one ear andout the other.
And I think I think about thatJames passage that talks about
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don't, don't just be a hearer ofthe word, be a doer of the word
.
That is really an amazing thingthat we're missing out on if we
don't.
So my encouragement would be um, to pace yourself, know how
much you can read when you'rereading your Bible time, to be
able to get to that, uh, moreone-on-one moment with the Lord,
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of having him dissect yourheart and reach in and make you
more like Jesus, and for mesometimes that looks like
reading just a couple of versesin my quiet time instead of
maybe trying to fit in more thanI can chew.
And also we do have a lot ofquestions that we offer in our
easy Bible study book that giveyou awesome ways to start
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application.
I said some of them earlier,but just simple journaling
prompts that you can askyourself to easily get into the
why section that is so importantto Bible study.
Ellen Krause (33:17):
Absolutely Well.
As Taylor mentioned, the EasyBible Study Method book is out
now and available to buywherever books are sold.
If you've been enjoying thisseries, you will honestly love
the book.
It's such a great tool forrefreshing your time in
scripture and it's perfect toeither do individually, yourself
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or with a mentor.
I specifically wrote thementoring chapter in this book,
and so we've designed it withquestions that you can do with a
mentor or also in a small group, so it's quite flexible in that
way.
Taylor Mitchell (33:58):
We should add that Moody Publishers offers a
40% discount on bulk orders of12 or more.
So if your church or smallgroup would be interested in
learning to study the Bibletogether, that's a great offer
to check out.
Go to coffeeandbibletimecom todownload a free excerpt of the
book.
Ellen Krause (34:18):
Yes, all right.
Well, we will make sure we havethe links to those in our show
notes.
Well, friends, as we wrap uptoday's conversation and really
this whole series, we want toleave you with this God isn't
asking you to be perfect,impressive or even productive in
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your Bible study.
He's inviting you to comecloser to him.
And so when we yearn for heartchange, when we long for
intimacy with the Lord, it's notabout doing more.
It's about seeing him moreclearly.
And when we see him rightly,everything in us starts to shift
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.
So be encouraged, starts toshift, so be encouraged.
Our prayer is that your time inscripture becomes a sacred
space of love and transformationwith God.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
We are truly cheering you on asyou fall more in love with
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Welcome back to the Coffee andBible Time podcast.
We are so happy that you arejoining us as we wrap up our
four-part series on studying theBible.
Have you ever read your Bible,closed it and thought why am I
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still the same?
You long for transformation,real heart change, but it feels
like your time in the Word isn'tsinking in.
If that's you, you're not alone.
In today's episode, we'redelving into the deep ache that
so many of us feel, the yearningfor God's word to actually
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change us inwardly and outwardly, not just inform us.
We are going to unpack what'sgetting in the way and how to
move from just reading scriptureto being truly renewed by it.
So if you're hungry for morethan head knowledge, if you want
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your heart to be more likeChrist's, this episode is
exactly what you need.
Welcome, taylor.
Taylor Mitchell (01:36):
Welcome.
It's so good to be here.
I've loved having this serieson our channel where Ashley and
I have been kind of moreinvolved in talking about Bible
study, and obviously the easyBible study method is very
special to us because this issomething that Ashley created oh
my goodness, five years ago nowand yeah, it's just absolutely
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crazy to think about how Godplanted that seed so long ago
and it's impacted a lot ofpeople and helping them be able
to really read the Bible in asystematic way, an easy way,
really.
Ellen Krause (02:16):
Absolutely, and the more we hear about people
who have read about it, who knowabout the Easy Bible Study
Method they really are theirlives are changed.
So that's what we want to talkabout here today, and I want to
first look at inwardtransformation.
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The way we seek heart change isthrough applying what we've
learned from the text to ourlife.
So, taylor, why do you think weneed to start with the heart?
Taylor Mitchell (02:51):
For those of you that are just joining us new
.
This week we are in the lastletter of the EASY acronym
E-A-S-Y, and this one stands foryearning for heart change.
Obviously, and a reallyimportant step to wanting to
apply the text to our lives isby taking everything you've
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learned when you're reading theBible from head knowledge to
your heart.
And I know for a lot of usthere can be a disconnect when
it comes to reading your Bible,depending on the busyness of
your life, or even if you're inan academic setting like I was
in Bible college for so longSometimes reading the Bible can
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feel very much so, just anactivity that you do with your
head, and this should not besomething we want to get in the
habit of.
Right, because God does reallydesire for our heart to be
changed and transformed by whatwe read, and I love that.
You asked that question of whyis it so important to start with
your heart.
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And that's because changealways starts from the inside
out, right.
Scripture tells us God looks atour heart.
He's desiring to see that thethings that we are learning
about him and the way that thespirit is moving is moving in
such a way that we are allowingit to penetrate deeper than just
our minds.
I think we can all say we knowpeople I mean maybe even
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ourselves at some points oranother in our lives who really
they hear the word and itdoesn't change them.
And we actually did a study inour community not too long ago
on James.
And James has a warning, youknow.
He says be doers of the wordand not hearers only Because God
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truly is looking to see thatwhat we read turns into
application for us.
And I know I'm rambling andrambling and rambling here, but
I believe that when you'rereading your Bible, some of
those first steps of finding thecontext and assessing the main
idea and seeking God's charactercan look a little bit more
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logical.
And then, when you are kind ofreally soaking in all that
you've learned there, you wantto move from a space of learning
information to letting it godeeper into your soul, asking
those questions about how thetext should be changing the way
that you live your life.
And in order to really do thatwell, you need to be able to
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have some self-reflection andsome what's the word I'm
thinking of?
You need to be aware of what'sgoing on in your heart and your
mind and what's going on in yourlife.
Self-awareness, that's what I'mthinking of.
You need to be self-aware aboutwhat's going on in your heart
and your mind and bring that tothe Lord in prayer, and I think
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that that's the first step whenit comes to yearning for a heart
change is bringing the Lordexactly where you are and asking
where the text or what you'rereading can intersect in that.
Do you have any thoughts?
Ellen Krause (06:06):
You know I was looking up some verses on the
heart and scripture itself helpsus to understand what is meant
by that and I just wanted tomention a couple of those.
Proverbs 4.23 says Keep yourheart with all vigilance, for
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from it flows the springs oflife.
That's one example.
Jeremiah 29.13 says you willseek me and find me when you
seek me with all your heartright.
Taylor Mitchell (06:45):
We see that God is he's emotionally available.
We talked about this in theseeking God podcast episode that
we did last week, but that's areally key thing to understand
about God and about who you aremade in the image of, is
somebody who is emotional in thebest, most connective way
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possible.
He is a God that is emotionallyavailable to all our needs and
he created us with the abilityto connect with him.
That in itself is very profound, but it's also extremely
important to know in regards tomeeting him in his word.
We believe that scripture isGod-breathed.
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We believe that this is his wayof revealing himself to us.
If you want to learn and knowmore about God, connect with him
in his word.
This is where he is speaking tous through so many genres and
books and things.
That takes you on a journey andan adventure, but, like you
said, these stories are meant toconnect with us in our heart.
Ellen Krause (07:53):
Absolutely, and when we take the time to sit in
God's word, we start to get anunderstanding about things that
maybe need to be challenged orreshaped in our lives.
Do you have any recent examplesof this Tay, something that
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you've read in God's word andrecognized that you need to take
action?
Taylor Mitchell (08:21):
That is a great question.
Well, first of all, I just wantto say that there's a lot of
different questions that we canask ourselves when we're wanting
to apply God's word to our life.
In any passage that you readand I'm going to say a few right
now, but there's a lot more inour Easy Bible Study book that
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you can use as a tool to helpyou dig deeper into the
application portion of yourBible study.
But first question that you canask yourself is in what ways is
the Holy Spirit convicting methat my heart needs to look more
like God's?
Another one is how does mycurrent way of thinking need to
be challenged?
Three what emotions am Ifeeling?
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Fear, anxiety, bitterness.
That has maybe come out as Iwas reading God's word that
needs to be acknowledged andsurrendered.
Those are a few I will say.
Actually, mentor Mama, somethingthat I was challenged by that
you told me recently is that Ineed to watch my tongue, okay,
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and that sometimes I'm agrumbler, I'm a complainer.
Sometimes I've actually noticedthat about myself, maybe more
so in this wedding season that Ifeel like the overflow of my
mouth has been a lot ofcomplaining, stress.
And I will say and I won't gettoo deep into this, but part of
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the process of this weddingplanning has been working with
vendors and people along the waythat are supposed to help us,
and there's been a few trickyrelationships that I've had to
navigate, and one of them inparticular has brought a lot of
grumbling and complaining out ofme Gossip, if I can just like
be quite frank and honest.
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I mean, I don't even know thisperson really on a deep level,
but they've made it so difficultfor me to have more peace in
this process of wedding planningand that's brought a lot of
bitterness out in me and a lotof ugliness, and I've had to
really, really challenge myselfto trust that God is sovereign
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over everything and to alsotrust that God's model for my
life and how he wants my heartto look, which really should be
gracious and understanding andforgiving.
That needs to be a priority,and if I'm really truly trusting
God that his way is best, thenthat means that I should be able
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to reflect in my heart and findgrace for these people that
maybe do make my life a littlebit more difficult, and I'm sure
we can all relate to that inone way or another.
Life isn't full of easy peopleto get along with at all by any
means, and are we able to lookin our heart and say, can I be
gracious towards this personwhen I really just want to go
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the opposite direction and feelupset and angry and let my
bitterness come out?
I was really hoping for me thatthe wedding period of all these
details and all this stuffwould not be stressful, but it
is.
I don't want to look back inthese moments and be like man.
I really let that stress ruinthe process for me.
I don't want that.
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But anyways, I think thatthat's one area for me.
What about you?
Mentor Mama?
Ellen Krause (11:44):
I think that you've also learned, though,
through this process, thatthere's two sides to every story
, and sometimes being graciousincludes not fully understanding
what that other person isperhaps going through, that
they're not communicating, andso that's been a, that's so true
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.
Definitely a learning processand I know for me it's.
A lot of times the anxietycomes back to trust and I feel
like that was one thing that mydad was so good at reminding me
as a younger person.
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And he was a big man, 6'4".
People called him the gentlegiant and I can almost feel like
his hand on my shoulder when Iwould have anxiety, saying just
trust, just trust, it's going tobe okay.
Taylor Mitchell (12:44):
I love that.
Actually, that reminds me of apassage in Proverbs that our
church was doing for VBS thissummer, and that is Proverbs 3,
5 through 6, trust in the Lordwith all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding.
In all your ways, acknowledgehim and he will direct your
paths.
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And what's so beautiful aboutthat verse in regards to what
we're talking about and whatyou're saying here is that trust
is an application that we canput into our lives.
From what we read in the text,how many passages of scripture
do we read where we see the mainperson of the story is going
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through a difficult time?
I mean, look in the OldTestament, look in the New
Testament.
I want to say probably 90% ofthe stories that you read in the
Bible are of trials, thatpeople are going through
difficulties where they aregiven an opportunity to trust
God.
We see stories where they dotrust God.
We see stories where they runaway from God but come back.
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We see stories where they flatout you know, just choose not to
walk with the Lord.
And what we have theopportunity to do is, when we
read those stories, especiallyin the yearning for heart change
section of our quiet time is toask the Holy Spirit how can I
learn about this trust and applyit to my life?
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How can my heart look more likeJesus?
And I'm thinking even of thisProverbs passage trust in the
Lord with all your heart.
How easy would it be to justread through that proverb and be
like all right, amen, done.
Thank you.
That was so good and easy toread today, Quiet time over,
Instead of sitting andreflecting and chewing on it.
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I love that Ashley uses the wordchew a lot.
When you're reading scripture,it is kind of like a chewing.
You want to just sit and enjoyit and savor it.
Sometimes, I think in aninstance like this, where it
says trust in the Lord with allyour heart, when you're leaving
your quiet time, you should beasking yourself when am I not
trusting you, lord?
And just let the holy spirittell you where you're not
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trusting him.
You might think I'm I'm prettygood on that.
I think we all struggle withtrust in one way or another and
ask the holy spirit to revealthat.
And yeah, james tells us thatwe should ask God for wisdom and
he gives generously to all,without reproach or turning you
away.
So if you want wisdom and howto apply God's word to your life
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.
I feel that this is nodifferent.
Ellen Krause (15:22):
So one of the things that we have to do is
untangle our emotions from whatroot issues that we may be going
on and then using God's word ascounsel or guidance or
application to what needs to bechanged about that, about that.
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How can journaling help usacknowledge those, surrender
them and see how God's scripturecan then help us change where
we need to.
Taylor Mitchell (15:58):
That's a great question.
Actually, when you were sayingthat, it brought to mind for me
just how tricky it can be withhuman emotions.
Those of you that know me.
I was trying to get my master'sdegree in counseling, so I'm
all for emotions okay, and thatjourney for me ended quickly
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because my school shutting down,wah wah.
But still, as I think aboutemotions, emotions are valid,
they're important tools, they'reindicators for us to see
something deeper is going on,like you said, mentor Mama.
But sometimes we place thoseemotions a bit on a pedestal.
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Sometimes, when we have reallystrong emotions or feelings or a
pull in us in a certaindirection ideologically, we can
sometimes want to view the Biblethrough that lens, and that is
the primary way that we viewscripture is through our own
ideas, through our own emotions,through our own beliefs and
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morals.
And where journaling can be agreat tool is it allows you to
express how you're feeling tothe Lord, acknowledging those
emotions, which is really key,really important.
If you are feeling something,you need to acknowledge it.
Okay, you can't just keepburying that puppy under the
dirt.
That thing will resurface overand over and over again, and for
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some of us, the more we dig anddig and dig and dig and dig and
dig.
Somebody comes along and stepson a landmine and it blows up.
So it is really good toacknowledge those and not let
them fester and simmer.
But journaling is a great wayto acknowledge those feelings
while also keeping your heartand your mind open to reading
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scripture the way God intendedus to interpret it.
And that's why those firststeps of the easy Bible study
method are so important,especially entering into the
story, because the Bible iswritten by human authors to
original audiences that, I mean,shocker to.
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Ironically, a lot of us isn't usin 21st century.
It was to somebody else thatthere are total eternal truths
that we can take away?
Absolutely, don't get me wrong.
But sometimes we take in ourown emotions, our own ideas, our
own beliefs, our own even youknow political ideologies, and
we put it into the text ratherthan reading out and extracting
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the idea that the originalauthor wanted us to get.
So it is true, mentor Mama,that it's important to see the
emotions that we have.
I mean it can turn into anentangled web.
We have to acknowledge them,but we can't bring it too much
into the text because dangerousthings can happen there in terms
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of interpretation that justthey aren't accurate anymore,
and I know that that's asensitive subject today, because
we do have different camps ofpeople who interpret scripture,
have different camps of peoplewho interpret scripture,
honestly, vastly different incertain areas, because of
beliefs that we want to bringinto the text or vice versa.
Ellen Krause (19:15):
That is so true for sure.
You know, this morning, tay,when I was doing my quiet time,
I was reading Acts, chapter 7,about the story of Stephen, the
stoning of Stephen, and thisreally reminded me of, first of
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all, like if you're carryingbitterness and I'm thinking
about myself here like there arecertain things that have
happened in my life that I canbe bitter about, but this
morning, when I was reading thispassage about Stephen and he is
literally being stoned to deathand at the very end his last
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dying words were he fell on hisknees and cried out Lord, do not
hold this sin against them.
Taylor Mitchell (20:15):
Wow.
Ellen Krause (20:18):
It just really struck me as that's what I need
to apply, no matter how grievoussomeone has sinned against me.
That's what Jesus did for us,and that's how I need to apply
it to my life as well, and so Ifelt convicted reading that.
Taylor Mitchell (20:42):
Yeah, I was going to say that's why it's so
important to read God's word,because hearing about I mean
especially in the early churchyou see people live so radically
, so counterculturally, to thepoint where you cannot walk away
from reading those passageswithout in some way feeling
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convicted that your heart oryour actions need to change.
And it's scary how, the longeryou don't spend in God's word
I'm speaking from experience themore justified you feel in
having bitterness, holdinggrudges, withholding forgiveness
, staying angry at people.
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You kind of get this puffed upsort of pride that you, you
think you're a good person andyou know we're, we're all in
need of god's forgiveness.
We can't be withholdinganything and we certainly can't
be the judge of other people too.
But I'm telling you, the longerI spend out of god's word, the
more bold I should not bold in agood way, but bold in a bad way
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I am to think that I can havecertain perks that Christ did
not call believers to have andhe calls believers to pick up
their cross and to live like him.
That means radical forgivenessand love and, of course, all the
fruits of the spirit that we,let's be honest, don't hone if
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we're not reading God's word.
Ellen Krause (22:14):
Right, which is really the outward application
of applying the text once you'vesort of gone through this inner
heart assessment, if you will,and then living it out is really
the hard part.
I want to just make sure thatwe touch briefly on when a
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passage doesn't give a clearcommand, but it can point to
other godly characteristics.
So when we read a text likethat, how can we identify and
adopt those implied?
Taylor Mitchell (22:58):
behaviors, because, like, okay, actually
shameless plug.
But I really recommend that forthose of you that are wanting
to dig really deep into God'sword.
Please, please, please, checkout our academy courses that we
have online.
You can have access to all ofthem if you join our community
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monthly, or you can buy themindividually and do it that way,
but there are so many layers tocreating just an incredible
Bible study routine and justscratching the surface.
Talking about genre, there are alot of different genres of
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books of the Bible that you'rereading.
Some of them make for really,really easy to apply passages.
I mean, you can whip throughchapter after chapter in, let's
say, proverbs or something in awisdom literature book and
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you're going to be like, wow, Icould apply this, I could apply
this, I could stop doing this, Icould stop doing that.
The Holy Spirit could partnerwith me in this.
And then you're going to haveother books.
I mean I am particularlythinking in the Old Testament
not really a shocker therehistory and context into how
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people lived very differentlythan us and maybe lived in ways
that aren't really applicable tous.
One thing I think of is thelineage passages.
We've all been there wherewe've gone to the Old Testament.
We think we're about to justwhip through a book and then, lo
and behold, there's severalpages worth of name after name
after name that you cannotpronounce to save your life and
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you think to yourself you knowwhat?
I don't really know how theBible can apply to me because
this, just it just feels notreally helpful to our life.
Okay, feels not really helpfulto our life.
Okay, for those of you that aremaybe confused, when you are
reading those more historicalbooks, you can, like Mentor Mama
said, still learn a lot aboutGod and his character and how he
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treats people that constantlywander away from him and
constantly turn their back onhim.
You can learn a lot about thegrace and forgiveness and love
of God.
In those Old Testament books.
You can also really learn tosee how God has worked through
history and time to bring aboutthe greatest story of redemption
of all time in Jesus Christ.
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And some of those books don'thave a one, two, three
application step for you to goabout your day and how to talk
to your boss at work.
There are other passages inscripture that can really help
you with those things.
But don't feel like you'redoing something wrong.
If you're reading throughscripture and you're like I just
feel like I don't really knowwhat to bring out of this.
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That's normal and you can stillknow that you're honoring the
Lord and reading those passagesand learning about how he's
worked through history, canstill know that you're honoring
the Lord and reading thosepassages and learning about how
he's worked through history, etc.
Do you have any thoughts youwant to add to this?
Ellen Krause (26:13):
yeah, you know, the one thing that I was going
to add to that, and I can saythis, is because I was in a
mom's group where we did biblestudies every single year for
over 20 years, and somethingthat you learn when you take the
time to actually do a Biblestudy and I'm just thinking of
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Matthew, for example, and thegenealogy that you referred to
when you actually dissect it.
I remember learning back in theday when I didn't know that
much about the Bible, and thenin that genealogy where you're
learning that Rahab was anancestor, that Ruth was an
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ancestor, and then when youlearn about the character-.
Taylor Mitchell (27:09):
Ancestor to Jesus.
For those that are curiousabout who their ancestors are.
Ellen Krause (27:15):
Yes, sorry about that.
I shouldn't have made thatassumption.
But when you then learn aboutthe characteristics of these
women and who they were and whythey're in the genealogy, then
there's something there thatyou're starting to grasp that
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you can glean some implicitapplications from.
Taylor Mitchell (27:43):
Right and I'm going to sit here and tell you
right now that for the averageJehovah reader, you may not get
those without studying a Biblestudy or having some sort of
tool or a commentary.
And the reason why that is isbecause when you're first
reading the Bible for the firsttime, you're going to be getting
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one layer, one layer ofgoodness.
Okay, every time you read theBible after that you are going
to keep peeling back the layers,that is, the knowledge found in
scripture.
The more you keep reading, themore you get out of it.
I mean, you could be readingthe Bible third, fourth, fifth,
sixth time and you're like Ididn't get that my first, second
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, third time.
It continues to unveil itself inreally beautiful ways and I
went okay, I'm just going to saythis I went to Bible school, my
sister went to Bible school, mymom she's like she said she's
done 20 years worth of, I wouldsay, pretty in-depth Bible
studies and sometimes I mean I'mnot even gonna say sometimes, a
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lot of times we still look toscholars for help when studying
God's word, we still look tocommentaries, because these
people have spent their entireadult career and life
meticulously studying God's wordto be able to get out of it
exactly what God wants to shareand what his heart is behind it.
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And for some of them, they lovethose genealogies right, and so
they're going to spend hundredsof hours looking at those
genealogies, making everyconnection possible, and they're
going to deliver it to you in asemi-easy-to-read format for
you to understand how you canalso fall more in love with God
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through passages like that.
I'll say another thing that I'mthinking of in terms of
passages and I don't want todwell on this too long, but
passages that I think of thatare not quite so easy to apply
is the Old Testament passages onconstruction guidelines,
because they do give youinstructions on how to, for
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instance, make the Ark of theCovenant.
It needs to be this long bythis wide, by X, y, z and I know
what you're about to say,mentor Mama.
Even that you can glean thingsfrom, because didn't you do a
study on the Ark?
Ellen Krause (30:18):
Well, not the Ark, the Tabernacle, which was
incredible, one of my all-timefavorite and and people.
Taylor Mitchell (30:31):
I'm telling you there are bible studies out
there on on those things.
So if you are curious aboutlearning more about those
designs that god has, then theyare out there, I'm telling you.
Ellen Krause (30:45):
They sure are All right.
Well, tay, as we sort of wrapthis up, what would you say to
encourage someone that to makeit all the way through to get to
this point?
So, as you said, this is thelast process in the Easy Bible
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Study method which is yearn forheart change.
It's the application of whatthe scriptures are teaching us
and how to apply it.
How would you like to encouragesomeone today?
Taylor Mitchell (31:22):
You know what?
It is easy to go through yourBible study and learn a lot and
to not walk away withapplication.
It is so easy to do that and Iwould encourage you, just as I'm
encouraging myself, where everyday that you do your Bible
study, you don't ever get to anapplication part or you don't
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ever get time to self-reflect.
I think for me, a lot of times,quiet times that look like that
, are maybe I'm rushing and I'mlike, all right, I'll just put
on the audio Bible and I'll justhave it on the background while
I, you know, do my makeup ordrive the car or do this or that
, and really it's one ear andout the other.
And I think I think about thatJames passage that talks about
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don't, don't just be a hearer ofthe word, be a doer of the word
.
That is really an amazing thingthat we're missing out on if we
don't.
So my encouragement would be um, to pace yourself, know how
much you can read when you'rereading your Bible time, to be
able to get to that, uh, moreone-on-one moment with the Lord,
(32:40):
of having him dissect yourheart and reach in and make you
more like Jesus, and for mesometimes that looks like
reading just a couple of versesin my quiet time instead of
maybe trying to fit in more thanI can chew.
And also we do have a lot ofquestions that we offer in our
easy Bible study book that giveyou awesome ways to start
(33:03):
application.
I said some of them earlier,but just simple journaling
prompts that you can askyourself to easily get into the
why section that is so importantto Bible study.
Ellen Krause (33:17):
Absolutely Well.
As Taylor mentioned, the EasyBible Study Method book is out
now and available to buywherever books are sold.
If you've been enjoying thisseries, you will honestly love
the book.
It's such a great tool forrefreshing your time in
scripture and it's perfect toeither do individually, yourself
(33:42):
or with a mentor.
I specifically wrote thementoring chapter in this book,
and so we've designed it withquestions that you can do with a
mentor or also in a small group, so it's quite flexible in that
way.
Taylor Mitchell (33:58):
We should add that Moody Publishers offers a
40% discount on bulk orders of12 or more.
So if your church or smallgroup would be interested in
learning to study the Bibletogether, that's a great offer
to check out.
Go to coffeeandbibletimecom todownload a free excerpt of the
book.
Ellen Krause (34:18):
Yes, all right.
Well, we will make sure we havethe links to those in our show
notes.
Well, friends, as we wrap uptoday's conversation and really
this whole series, we want toleave you with this God isn't
asking you to be perfect,impressive or even productive in
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your Bible study.
He's inviting you to comecloser to him.
And so when we yearn for heartchange, when we long for
intimacy with the Lord, it's notabout doing more.
It's about seeing him moreclearly.
And when we see him rightly,everything in us starts to shift
(35:02):
.
So be encouraged, starts toshift, so be encouraged.
Our prayer is that your time inscripture becomes a sacred
space of love and transformationwith God.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
We are truly cheering you on asyou fall more in love with
Jesus.
We'll see you next time onCoffee and Bible Time.
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